On Mar 16, 2011, at 8:13 AM, Paul Kraus <p...@kraus-haus.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Edward Ned Harvey > <opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > >> BTW, what is the advantage of the kernel cifs server as opposed to samba? >> It seems, years ago, somebody must have been standing around and saying >> "There is a glaring deficiency in samba, and we need to solve it." > > Complete integration with AD/NTFS from the client perspective. In > other words, the Sun CIFS server really does look like a genuine NTFS > volume shared via CIFS in terms of ACLs. Snapshots even show up as > "previous versions" in explorer. > > I have never seen SAMBA provide more than just authentication > integration with AD. > > The in kernel CIFS server is also supposed to be much faster, > although I have not tested that yet.
Samba has all those features as well. It has native support for different platform ACLs (Linux/Solaris/BSD) and supports mapping POSIX perms with platform ACLs to present a quasi NT ACL that reflects the native permissions of the host. Samba even has modules for mapping NT RIDs to Nix UIDs/GIDs as well as a module that supports "Previous Versions" using the hosts native snapshot method. The one glaring deficiency Samba has though, in Sun's eyes not mine, is that it runs in user space, though I believe that's just the cover song for "It wasn't invented here". -Ross _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
